There is big communications developer news afoot as Skype announced over 10 million downloads of Skype Extras. These Extras are in fact software programs designed to integrate with Skype. Collaboration software and call recording are examples of products that are part of this program.
The most popular Skype Extra to date is Reallusion’s CrazyTalk for Skype, which has been downloaded by consumers more than 3.5 million times. For business users, the Pamela Call Recorder has been downloaded more than 1 million times.
It goes without saying that the past few years has seen the rise of ecosystems in the communications market. Two of the drivers in the space are Skype and Salesforce.com. Certainly there are others such as Avaya, Cisco but the model is always similar. Make your products work with strong players in the space.
I am sure you know by now that TMC’s Communications Developer Conference next month in Santa Clara, CA will allow attendees to meet with the head of the Skype Developer program as well as the key decision makers from developer programs at Cisco, Avaya, Aculab, NMS and a whole bunch more listed on this page.
I can’t be more excited about going out to Santa Clara next month to help facilitate the development of ever-larger communications ecosystems.
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